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Ammashi |
Blind masseurs of Japan founded in the 1800s |
Amma= traditional Japanese massage Shi= practitioner |
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Bath attendant |
Servants or attendance giving rubdowns or rubbing in scented oils after a bath |
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Aleiptes |
Practitioners who rubbed athletes with oil |
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Rubbers |
Unschooled massage practitioners might have been athletes themselves and had a knack for rubbing |
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Health service operator |
Goal was to focus on health and fitness and general well-being |
Trained in the familiar cluster of natural health and healing methods. Sometimes called physical therapeutics or physiotherapy |
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Sobardoras |
Traditional Hispanic healers |
Part of the healing tradition of curanderas. Who combined folk traditions from Spain and Mexico |
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Johann Mezger 1838-1909 |
Developed a system of soft tissue manipulation that is the basis for today's traditional Western massage |
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The society of trained masseuses |
Formed in England in 1894 to raise professional standards for massage specialist working in medical field |
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